From Resistance to Remembrance: My Soul’s Return to Truth This Lent
- Frannie Chara
- Mar 28
- 2 min read
For most of my life, I carried deep resistance toward Catholicism — not just toward the practices, but the entire story of Jesus, Mary, and God as I had been taught. I wasn’t just questioning it — I was rejecting it. At one point, I even hated the concept of God, because the version I was taught didn’t feel like love. It felt like fear, control, shame, and guilt.
I now see that this system of belief didn’t just fail me — it failed *generations* before me. Our parents and their parents were taught that God was something outside of them — a punisher, a judge, a distant authority they needed to appease. They were led by fear. Disempowered. Taught that their worth came from obedience, not inner truth. And unknowingly, they passed that story on.
But my soul knew differently.
It always knew.
Since 2012, I’ve been on a spiritual journey — outside of dogma, outside of man-made doctrine — guided by higher consciousness, presence, and unconditional love. I’ve discovered that true spirituality doesn’t demand perfection or blind obedience — it invites *remembrance*. It’s not about who we should be — it’s about coming home to who we already are.
And this year, during Lent — a season I once associated with punishment and sacrifice — something remarkable happened.
I had a moment of profound **soul clarity**.
I realized that my resistance wasn’t against God.
It was against the *false version* of God that had been imposed on me.
It was against the fear-based teachings that tried to disconnect me from my own divine nature.
Now I rise above that story — not with resentment, but with understanding.
I see how it began. I see how it shaped me. And I choose differently.
I’ve come to see Jesus not as a religious figure, but as a way-shower of Christ Consciousness — a model of what it looks like to fully embody divine love, truth, and surrender. I see Mary not just as a figure in a stained-glass window, but as the living embodiment of the Divine Feminine — grace, compassion, and sacred receiving.
I’ve discovered that God is not separate.
God is not judgment.
**God is presence. God is love. And God is within.**
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### My Soulful Lenten Intention
**This Lent, I do not fast out of fear or guilt.
I fast from shame. From silence. From the old beliefs that were never mine.
And I feast on grace, remembrance, and truth.**
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If you’ve ever felt resistance to the religious stories you were told, I invite you to explore what your soul *already knows*. You are not alone. And you are not wrong for seeking something deeper.
This is the work I do as a **spiritual soul coach** — helping others unravel what no longer resonates and guiding them back to their truth.
If you’re on a path of rediscovery, healing, or spiritual awakening, I welcome you to journey with me.
**Let’s walk together — not in religion, but in remembrance.**
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